Prestosuchus chiniquensis

Prestosuchus chiniquensis

Prestosuchus was a Middle Triassic paracrocodylomorph from the Santa Maria Formation of Brazil. It had a semi-erect limb posture providing a gait more akin to that of dinosaurs than of the crocodilians it was more closely related to. Prestsuchus bears an impressive ziphodont dentition which makes obvious its ferocity as a large quadrupedal predator. This large pre-dinosaurian terrestrial carnivore fits into any dinosaur exhibit by helping demonstrate Earth's fauna before Pangea divided.